Interviews & Profiles

The Professor Who Gave Me Rehabilitation

A human being can save your life without your knowing it. The way I operated back in time could have led to my utter...

Prof Bart Nnaji As A Sports Superstar

Prof Bart Nnaji is globally renowned for his revolutionary innovations in robotics, e-Design and Artificial Intelligence (AI). He has served as Nigeria’s Power Minister as...

The Homecoming Ties Of Prof Nduka Otiono

The don makes it a point of duty to always come home to Nigeria from his duty post as Director, Institute of African Studies,...

DAME Celebrates Owei Lakemfa

The Diamond Awards for Media Excellence (DAME) can hardly ever be matched as a benchmark for quality in the Nigerian media. The 34th edition of...

Toast To Kunle Ajibade Who Dared Death For Democracy 

In this season of the esteemed Diamond Award for Media Excellence (DAME) powered by the seasoned journalist, Lanre Idowu, I want to lionize a...

Morgan Omodu: The measure of a life

I was a year ahead of Temidayo Morgan Omodu at the University of Ilorin. We were from separate departments: Morgan, Mathematics Education, and I,...

Olajumoke Ale: Tribute To A Life Of Service And Wisdom

Life, a “transparent pearl” (Shan Sa), is often recognized for its fleeting nature: “a flash of a firefly in the night” and “the little...

Ademiluyi’s 40th memorial

On Saturday, September 20, 2025, family and friends celebrated the life of Prince Daniel Adeleke Ademiluyi, who passed away at 72. His transition was...

Up Close To Prof Bart Nnaji & “The Boss”

The plan was that I should come in daytime, but I arrived at night. It was already completely dark when I dropped off from the...

Komolafe: Five years and a timeless memory

Five years ago, a rare breed of man departed this world, leaving behind a void that nobody has been able to fill. On August...

The Impossible Death Of Zik Of Africa

The news broke like tropical thunderclap: Zik of Africa is dead! The announced death of Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, Nigeria’s first President & C-in-C, was like...

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Memos to APC its new chair

One of the things that I cannot do as a discourse analyst involved with public issues and policies is to focus unnecessarily on personalities or personal attributes of prominent people or their failings...

Gerald Eze Shakes the Rafters with “Igbo Rising”

The rafters are afire and the roof is aglow....

The Catholic Mission House Boys

What kind of woman does not like being pursued by men? It was not as if she was a virgin. She already had a child that she spoke of but had not even bothered to bring with her. She was probably one of these wayward women...

Nigeria's 2011 Elections: Free but NOT fair!

The 2011 elections have come and gone. Winners and losers have been declared-and members of the Judiciary are pungently salivating. The president of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan, has already offered a verdict...

Amaechi, David-West and I

Today, what battles and baffles me is the unflinching love Professor Tam David-West has shown me for just that article on Amaechi, even though I have written many articles buttressing reasons Amaechi should be supported...

Why Is A Nation So Rich So Poor?

I am highlighting this news brew in case you missed it while bustling about in your business. I will bullet the points so you don’t forget easily...

Speaking Truth to Power: Nigeria and the Casual Truth

A few weeks have now elapsed since Yar'Adua's arrival in Nigeria in the dead of the night and yet no credible sightings of him are available to anyone.  Nigeria and the world are left in the dark, fed with rumours for crumbs...

100 Men With Technology Can Secure Nigeria — Not 100,000 Soldiers

Nigeria’s security crisis is no longer a debate about...

The Thief Called Peter Odili

To think that Odili at some point nursed the ambition of becoming Nigeria's President and allegedly had the backing of the incumbent President Obasanjo leaves a sour taste in one's mouth...

Beware of Fitch, SP and Moody’s ratings

The more these credit rating agencies assign high ratings to investment bank’s junk portfolios, the more they attract unsuspecting buyers. As a result, these credit rating firms spend more time experimenting and perfecting how to generate more pleasing and beneficial inaccurate ratings for the companies to use to mislead the public...